Integrated Intelligent Energy ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (4): 12-19.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2097-0706.2022.04.002

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Reactive power and voltage control strategy based on adaptive droop control for wind power plants

WANG Kangping1(), ZHANG Xingke1(), LIU Caihua2(), SHEN Xicheng3(), ZHOU Xia3,*()   

  1. 1. Northwest Branch of State Grid Corporation of China,Xi'an 710048,China
    2. NARI Technology Development Company Limited,Nanjing 211106,China
    3. Institute of Advanced Technology,Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Nanjing 210023,China
  • Received:2021-12-21 Revised:2022-01-20 Online:2022-04-25 Published:2022-05-05
  • Contact: ZHOU Xia E-mail:wkpnwpn@163.com;xkzhang757@126.com;362241852@qq.com;755504680@qq.com;zhouxia@njupt.edu.cn

Abstract:

The grid connecting of large-scale wind farms would exert negative impacts on the security and stability of power system,mainly in terms of voltage,frequency and sub-synchronization resonance.When the system reactive power is insufficient,the wind turbine itself cannot provide enough reactive power support.Therefore,a reactive power and voltage control strategy is proposed in which converters of wind turbines adopt adaptive droop control and adjust their reactive power outputs according to their own capacities in order to support the voltage at grid connection point. To be specific,the strategy adopts maximum power point tracking(MPPT) control mode under normal circumstances to maximize the active power output.In the event of voltage over-limit at grid connection point,the converters adopt active power curtailment and the active power curtailment priority of different wind turbine is calculated in real time.The active power of the wind turbines with high priority would be adjusted at first,to meet the reactive power requirement of the system. The PSCAD/EMTDC simulation results show that the proposed strategy is effective in controlling the voltage at grid connection point and preventing voltage over-limit.

Key words: reactive power and voltage of wind farm, voltage over-limit, MPPT, active power curtailment and control, adaptive droop control

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